Church of the Holy Apostles - Column Capital #3 (3D)
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This is a 3D model at various resolutions (ultra low, low, medium, high, RAW) of a Corinthian column capital from the western facade of the church of the Holy Apostles.
The church, a UNESCO World Heritage Monument, is situated in the homonymous square in Thessaloniki, in the beginning of the modern Olympou Street. It lies south of the decumanus (Saint Demetrius Street), around 50 meters from the west city wall, near the Litea Gate, ruined today. Originally it was the katholikon (main church) of a sizeable monastery. Except for the church, little evidence remains still today from the original complex, such as parts of the precinct, a gateway to the south of the katholikon and a large cistern to its northwest. Initially the monastery covered an area of more than 10.000 square meters.
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Source | Athena R.I.C., ILSP, Xanthi, (former Cultural and Educational Technology Institute (CETI) ) |
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Actor | Athanasios Tsaouselis, External Research Assistant |
Actor | Despoina Tsiafaki, Senior Researcher |
Actor | Anastasia Michailidou, External Research Assistant |
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Europeana Rights |
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Start Date | 1310-01-01 |
End Date | 1334-01-01 |
Period Name | Late Byzantine Era |
Materials | mortar, pantile, stone, brick |
Provenace | The 9th Ephorate of Byzantine Antiquities refers to all matters concerning the safeguard and protection, the conservation, the reconstruction, the study and the publication of the monument. |
Heritage Asset Type | Byzantine, Katholika, Late Byzantine, Ιερός Ναός, Christianity, Χριστιανισμός, Orthodox Church, Αρχιτεκτονική, Churches, Architecture, Monuments, Ορθοδοξία, Εκκλησία, Θεσσαλονίκη, Monastery, Oriental Orthodox, Monasteries |
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Name | Digitisation of the Church of the Holy Apostles |
Description | The monument was selected to be 3D digitised within the framework of the European Commission funded 3D-ICONS project by the Athena RC Xanthi Division. Its exterior was captured in 3D using the Structure-From-Motion (SFM) and Dense Multi-View 3D Reconstruction (DMVR) methods. Aerial and terrestrial photoshooting sessions were performed during the winter of 2014 always during cloudy days. A total of four digitisation sessions were performed where each resulted a number of image sequences presenting the monument from different points of views. The terrestrial photoshooting sessions were implemented using camera tripods and custom monopods (3m-9m adaptive). We attempted to keep the distance between two terrestrial photoshooting points at 60cm. All aerial photoshooting was performed using a custom hexacopter equipped with gimbal remote controlled two axis tilt-roll camera base, first-person view (FPV) and GPS. A pair of Samsung NX1000 20MP compact DSLR cameras with fixed 16mm and 20-50mm lenses were used. Agisoft PhotoScan (ver. 1.1) has been used for the production of monument 3D digital replica. Although, flight paths were designed they have been performed manually due to bad GPS reception (high buildings around the monument). Furthermore, the calibration of the cameras was performed by the software itself. A total of 4090 photos were used to generated the 3D model. The processing of the image sequences was performed on two computer systems (CPU IntelCoreI74820K 3.7Ghz, 64GB RAM, Radeon R9 290X, Microsoft Windows 7 64-bit). Additionally, empirical measurements between strong (in terms of visibility) feature points on the surface of the monument were performed and used to scale the 3D model. |
Purpose | To create a 3D digital replica of the monument |
Techinques | Data Processing |
Equipment | 20-50mm lens,Meshlab (version 1.3.2),A custom hexacopter equipped with gimbal remote controlled two axis tilt-roll camera base, first-person view (FPV) and GPS,PC , CPU IntelCoreI74820K 3.7Ghz, 64GB RAM, Radeon R9 290X, Microsoft Windows 7 64-bit,Custom Camera Monopods,Manfrotto Camera tripods,Blender,Fixed 16mm lens,Samsung NX1000 20MP compact DSLR cameras,Agisoft PhotoScan (version 1.1) |
Actor | Fotis Arnaoutoglou, individual, Digitisation team member |
Actor | Vasilis Liakopoulos, External Collaborator |
Actor | Anestis Koutsoudis, individual, Digitisation team member |
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Name | Generation of purpose specific 3D models based on the raw 3D data of the Church of the Holy Apostles |
Description | Decimated (simplified in terms of geometry and texture map resolution) versions of the primary 3D model (raw data) has been created in order to allow the visualisation of different quality versions of the 3D digital replica on various platforms. Low Resolution Model: 75K Facets - Image Texture Size:1024^2 Medium Resolution Model: 250K Facets - Image Texture Size:4096^2 High Resolution Model: 1M Facets - Image Texture Size:8192^2 |
Purpose | To provide a 3D model that meets different devices hardware specifications |
Techinques | Data Processing,Data Processing |
Equipment | 20-50mm lens,Meshlab (version 1.3.2),A custom hexacopter equipped with gimbal remote controlled two axis tilt-roll camera base, first-person view (FPV) and GPS,PC , CPU IntelCoreI74820K 3.7Ghz, 64GB RAM, Radeon R9 290X, Microsoft Windows 7 64-bit,Custom Camera Monopods,Manfrotto Camera tripods,Blender,Fixed 16mm lens,Samsung NX1000 20MP compact DSLR cameras,Agisoft PhotoScan (version 1.1),Agisoft PhotoScan (version 1.1),Meshlab (version 1.3.2),PC , CPU IntelCoreI74820K 3.7Ghz, 64GB RAM, Radeon R9 290X, Microsoft Windows 7 64-bit |
Actor | Anestis Koutsoudis, individual, Digitisation team member |
Actor | Athanasios Tsaouselis, External Research Assistant |
Actor | Fotis Arnaoutoglou, individual, Digitisation team member |